News
Issue 62 Also Includes Interviews with Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, The Horrors, Wolf Alice, Jessie Ware, King Krule, and Much More
Oct 20, 2017
By Christopher Roberts
Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our Fall 2017 Issue, which is out now digitally via Under the Radar’s app and the magazine app Readly. The print version has shipped out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon (as well as available soon digitally via the magazine app Zinio). The issue features Julien Baker on the cover. More
Cost of Living Out Now via Sub Pop
Sep 19, 2017
By Christopher Roberts
Downtown Boys recently released a new album, Cost of Living, via Sub Pop. It’s the political punk band’s third album and their first for the iconic Seattle label. Now they have shared a video for “Somos Chulas (No Somos Pendejas).” More
Interviews
Changing, But Still the Same
Sep 14, 2017
By Ed McMenamin
In this new series, Parental Guidance, Under the Radar listens in as a musician’s parent interviews them. For the inaugural edition, Lupe Aguinaga interviews her daughter, Downtown Boys’ vocalist Victoria Ruiz, along with the band’s guitarist, Joey La Neve DeFrancesco, about how the life of a band changes as they reach bigger stages, and how they would change the music business, if they could. More
Hard Work is No Work At All
Aug 17, 2017
By Ed McMenamin
On tour, it’s not unusual for Downtown Boys’ frontwoman Victoria Ruiz to wake up at 6 a.m. and field conference calls for the Center for Popular Democracy, all day, until show time. Day jobs are a fact of life for almost anyone in a band, minus pop stars and rock and roll fossils, but vary rarely do they align so purely with a group’s philosophy. More
